MANCHUKUO: Kang Teh

On a cold and bitter plain one day last
week 28-year-old Henry Pu Yi, last of the Manchus, stood in
dragon-embroidered robes, worshipped at the Altar of Heaven, and
returning to his small unprepossessing palace became the Emperor Kang
Teh (Tranquility-Virtue) of Manchukuo.

Tokyo, which put him on his throne, celebrated the occasion with gusto.
There were receptions and banquets. Young men's marching clubs and army
reservists tramped through the streets of Tokyo with lanterns. Cried
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota: ''Today's happy event was brought about
by the will of Heaven and is in perfect accord with the wish of...